Category: Me Stuff

In terms of how hopeful I am for my near future, I lump myself in with people who just learned their favorite books are being made into a movie and cows born on Mcdonald’s-owned farms. I have 28 days left of my Masters program. But, despite how dour I naturally am, I’ve been feeling strangely …

The last time I really took myself seriously, it was 2013, and I was in a heated debate over whether I needed new shoes to replace my duct tape-soled ones or if I needed to pre-order a video game six months before it came out. Suffice to say, I was remarkably convincing, articulate, and completely …

I remember learning my multiplication tables as a kid. I didn’t like the odd numbers; 9 was particularly infuriating for me. I’ve never claimed to have been a smart child. With all the trouble multiplication gave me, there was one number that always struck me as special and important. I had a weird thing for …

The ruby-throated hummingbird takes about 16-18 days from the moment the egg enters the nest for the first time to the first tentative pokes of a fragile new life’s beak breaking out into the world. I have about 5 baby hummingbird’s worth of grad school left. In the time it would take for 5 fresh …

I haven’t died just yet, though the last few weeks make that feel like a lie. A lot has happened since I wrote here last. I learned that the sickness I so valiantly fought with expired cold medicine was actually pneumonia, which was a little irksome because it kept me from keeping up my normal …